Camille Blatrix

At once highly personal, funny and enigmatic, Camille Blatrix’s sculptures are a summons to engage with stories awaiting resolution. His narratives, which determine the mode of presentation of his “objects” – a term he insists on – and his choice of carefully wrought materials, suggest a totally new “way of being” for his work.

Works

La vie moderne

La liberté, l'amour, la vitesse, Création Biennale 2015

At once highly personal, funny and enigmatic, Camille Blatrix’s sculptures are a summons to engage with stories awaiting resolution. His narratives, which determine the mode of presentation of his “objects” – a term he insists on – and his choice of carefully wrought materials, suggest a totally new “way of being” for his work. For the Biennale, Blatrix has created a unique sort of cashpoint machine: it has feelings… and talks to the user about the sadness of the world. The visitor starts a dialogue with a machine, which is futuristically and, at the same time, nostalgically designed, and this starts a dialogue. “I used to have really hard times with cash machines”, the artist tells us. “They were never able to give me what I wanted…” Here we see how a piece of ephemeral technology is suddenly really interested in the people that use it.